COMMUNITYSUPPORT ISKEYTOTHESUCCESSOF THECSC

The Centre for Sport Capacity (CSC) brings a variety of different actionable objectives that provide services to the neighbouring communities of Brock University.

TheSportSupportTeam

TheCentresuccessfullyestablished a new initiative with the help of sport management and recreation and leisure students to provide supportandguidancetolocalsport organizations. This initiative is called the Sport Support Team (SST). The SST is comprised of a small group of enthusiastic undergraduate students who apply their and skills to help local sport organizations. In 2021-2022, students supported the St. Catharines Minor Baseball Association, the South Niagara Canoe Club, Niagara United Basketball, and the St. Catharines TennisAlliance.

Webinars

The CSC webinars provide education to Brock students and community members on crucial, emerging topics in the sports industry, such as sport and the environment, sport gambling, e-sports, and innovation in sport. Dr. Julie Stevens, Director of the CSC prides herself on being a “Servant Leader”. She highlightswhatbeingaServant Leader means to her, and how this philosophy has shaped the CSC.

To ensure equal opportunity and accessibility for all stakeholders in the community, the Centre for Sport Capacity provides open-access resources on its website. By enabling everyone to use the information, the Centre hopes to inform and assist organizations dealing with the pressing matters facing the sport industry.

One of the most important goals for the CSC is to provide resources that share new, interesting, and useful knowledge from industry professionals and experts to the community. The CSC offers a variety of learning opportunities in the form of webinars, open to anyone to attend and gain knowledge. For example, the Centre for Sport Capacity offered webinars that featured important sports-related themes on Sport Gambling and Sport and the Environment.

The "Sport and the Environment" webinar series was presented in collaboration with the University of British Columbia’s Centre for Sport and Sustainability and the Centre for Sport Capacity hosted by Dr. Rob Millington and Dr. Brad Millington.

This first webinar of the series focused on “Politics, Practices and Preferred Futures” in sport and the current state of the climate emergency and sport’s impact on climate change. Speaker, David Goldblatt, Professor at Pitzer College in Los Angeles, Calif., shared his knowledge about the sport industry and the actions governing bodies are taking to limit the negative impacts sport has on the environment.

The second webinar in the series was titled “Tackling Environmental Issues in Canadian Sport.” Speaker Dan Wilcock, currently the Manager of UN Global Compact Network Australia and Founder of Canadian Alliance on Sports for Climate Action, joined to talk about the impact climate change has on Canadian sport and shared his experiences in bringing effective long-term change to Canadian sport organizations.